#AmericanWriters
Abe Mortenson was had enough to be around but he was just a fool. You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make y...
The reading in Vancouver went through, $500 plus air fare and lodging. The sponsor, Bart Mcintosh, was nervous about crossing the border. I was to fly to Seattle, he’d meet me there and...
takes lot of desperation dissatisfaction and
I didn’t contest the divorce, didn’t go to court. Joyce gave me the car. She didn’t drive. All I had lost was 3 or 4 million. But I still had the post office. “I saw you with that bitch...
I am hung by a nail the sun melts my heart I am cousin to the snake
Back at Chelsey High it was the same. One group of seniors had graduated but they were replaced by another group of seniors with sports cars and expensive clothes. I was never confronte...
Our man was there to meet us, Gary Benson. He also wrote poetry and drove a cab. He was very fat but at least he didn’t look like a poet, he didn’t look North Beach or East Village or l...
in the Valkerie Mountains among the strutting peacocks I found a flower as large as my head
I hear them outside: “does he always type this late?” “no, it’s very unusual.” “he shouldn’t type this
The next night as they moved the group from the main build– ing to the training building, I stopped to talk to Gus the old newsboy. Gus had once been 3rd-ranked welterweight contender b...
the history of melancholia includes all of us. me, I writhe in dirty sheets while staring at blue walls and nothing.
vain vanilla ladies strutting while van Gogh did it to himself. girls pulling on silk hose
I have been painting these last tw… it’s not much, you’re correct, but in this tournament great dream… history removes her dress and beco… and I have awakened in the morning
my first and only wife painted and she talked to me about it: it’s all so painful
what’s bad about all this is watching people drinking coffee and waiting. I would